Hope & Anchor serves a credible, though hardly perfect, version of the dish.

While he's hardly perfect, he seems well along in achieving his goal.

To be fair, the 911T is hardly perfect.

With a 15 percent deductible and a certain ambiguity about what exactly would be covered, it was hardly a perfect safeguard.

To be sure, the current fairness-opinion process is hardly perfect, and reforms are necessary, as this column has said.

First, some mistakes are always made; fee-for-service medicine was hardly perfect.

The resulting voice was satisfactory, but hardly perfect, like a person who learned English as an adult and mainly from a book.

But the women, for a change, are in better, if hardly perfect, shape.

On a hard surface where court temperature exceeded 100 degrees, Capriati was hardly perfect.

It was hardly perfect, but while playing it I just wished the theme wasn't so harsh.